Video in posters comment

I have a site that sometimes moves pretty quickly. I had a poster comment with a video in their post. The youtube video shows up, but it now slows down the site. Is there a way to turn this off so the video doesn't show in the posters comment and just the link?

This change is working out very badly for me. People are posting YouTube links in their comments to my blog, and sometimes they get converted to the video clip, but more often I just get big blank spaces where the links were posted. I have gone into the "edit comments" part and pushed the delete key a lot, sometimes deleting the "h" in the http and retyping it, adding punctuation such as a colon or dash (that seems to help)... In any event, I can fix it so this doesn't haappen, but I wish it weren't doing this.

That happens because there are so many videos in a stream they are overloading your computer's abiility to download even the thumbnails. You can do a cache clear, or you can set the comments so that they break into new pages after no more than a half dozen or so. That will help.

Thanks, that's helpful. But it would be easier altogether for me if the YouTube links in the comments were not being automatically converted to video clips in the first place. (I don't think that's even necessary. I like putting YouTube clips in the actual posts - and I go through a specific proecedure to do that - but I don't have to have them whenever someone lists a link in the comments.) Like humbleopinion above, I would like to find the switch that can turn this function off.

Well, my comment arose from the fact that the trend seemed to start on Gawker. And I KNOW Matt reads Valleywag. And Gawker took over Valleywag and made it just a category of Gawker.com earlier this year, So perhaps Matt got the idea from seeing it on Gawker.